Former chief Justice of Azad Jammu Kashmir High Court and President Jammu & Kashmir Liberation League (JKLL) Justice Abdul Majeed Malick (Retd), has said durable peace cannot be establish in South Asia unless and until the Indian occupied Kashmir issue is resolved.
He was addressing a press conference on return from three weeks visit to United Kingdom where he attended three international conferences on Indian occupied Kashmir held in London former JKLL president and eminent legal expert Chaudhry Sharif Tariq was also present on this occasion.
The JKLL president called for early withdrawal of Indian occupation forces from Indian occupied Kashmir to enable the people of Jammu and Kashmir to decide their future in exercise of the right of self-determination.
The Kashmiri leader also welcomed the ongoing move by both India and Pakistan to peacefully resolve the core issue of Indian occupied Kashmir besides other issues through a process of meaningful dialogue.
Majeed Malick, said that ongoing efforts for normalisation of relations between India and Pakistan in the wake of the CBMs could not bear fruit in true perspective unless India sincerely respond to the moral political diplomatic and global norms.
He pointed out that India was still involved in massive human rights abuses in occupied Jammu Kashmir through her over 800,000 occupation military and paramilitary forces.
He said black laws are still intact and the reign of state terrorism was continuing by the Indian occupying force in the bleeding vale of Indian occupied Kashmir.
Majeed Malick said that although there had been a great achievement towards the normalisation of relations between Pakistan and India so far since the road, rail and air links between the two neighbours have restored and interaction between the people of the two countries through bilateral visits of the representative delegations of the people of cross sections from either side have emerged yet there should be the exceptional development towards the settlement of the Indian occupied Kashmir issue through the proposed process of meaningful dialogue between New Delhi and Islamabad, he urged.
Majeed continued that the people of Jammu & Kashmir had been struggling for their freedom and the right of self-determination since over last 55 years.
He said that the measures regarding restoration of diplomatic relations and air links with Pakistan in order to mend the acrimonious relations between the two countries is an appreciable and positive step.
He said that it appears that the better sense of creating cordial relationship between the two countries was going to be prevailed.
Justice Majeed Malick (Retd) said that the much-prolonged tense and strained relations between the two counties have caused tremendous economical loss to both India and Pakistan, he observed.
He said that the smouldering issue of Indian occupied Kashmir which remains unresolved for the last 55 years, has made both the countries to by involved in the arms race, he observed.
The Kashmiri leader said that efforts for the normalisation of relations between India and Pakistan could bear fruit only if India acted upon its sayings in letter and spirit resolving all the outstanding issues including the prime issue of Indian occupied Kashmir.